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Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films based on playsActors Sylvia Sidney,
Joel McCrea,
Humphrey Bogart,
Wendy Barrie,
Claire Trevor,
Allen JenkinsRating71%
In the filthy slums of New York, wealthy people have built luxury apartments there because of the view of the picturesque East River. While they live in opulence, the destitute and dirt poor live nearby in crowded, filthy tenements., 1h35
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Noir,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Bette Davis,
Herbert Marshall,
James Stephenson,
Gale Sondergaard,
Cecil Kellaway,
Bruce LesterRating74%
On a moonlit, tropical night, the native workers are asleep in their outdoor barracks. A shot is heard; the door of a house opens and a man stumbles out of it, followed by a woman who calmly shoots him several more times, the last few while standing over his body. The woman is Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis), the wife of a British rubber plantation manager in Malaya; the man whom she shot her manservant recognizes as Geoff Hammond, a well-regarded member of the European community. Leslie tells the servant to send for her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall), who is working at one of the plantations. Her husband returns, having summoned his attorney and a British police inspector. Leslie tells them that Geoff Hammond "tried to make love to me" and that she killed him to save her honor., 2h2
Directed by George Stevens,
Charles C. Coleman,
Gerd OswaldOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Montgomery Clift,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Shelley Winters,
Anne Revere,
Keefe Brasselle,
Fred ClarkRating76%
George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), arrives in town following a chance encounter with his uncle while working as a bellhop in a Chicago hotel. The elder Eastman invites George to visit him if and when he ever comes to town, and the ambitious young man takes advantage of the offer. Despite George's family relationship to the Eastmans, they regard him as something of an outsider, but his uncle nevertheless offers him an entry-level job at his factory. George, uncomplaining, hopes to impress his uncle (whom he addresses as "Mr. Eastman") with his hard work and earn his way up. While working in the factory, George starts dating fellow factory worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), in defiance of the workplace rules. Alice is a poor and inexperienced girl who is dazzled by George and slow to believe that his Eastman name brings him no advantages., 1h46
Directed by George Cukor,
John WatersOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Joan Crawford,
Melvyn Douglas,
Conrad Veidt,
Reginald Owen,
Albert Bassermann,
Marjorie MainRating71%
Set in Sweden, the film is shown in flashbacks in the course of a trial in which a young woman with a half-hidden face, Anna Holm, is charged with murder. The events, as described by the witnesses, begin years before when aristocrat Torsten Barring hosts a party at a tavern. The guests include Vera, the faithless wife of noted plastic surgeon Gustaf Segert. When the tavern refuses to extend his credit, Torsten meets the proprietress Anna — whose face is badly scarred from a fire 22 years ago caused by her father. Torsten treats Anna as if she is beautiful and charming rather than scarred and unpleasant. Anna is suspicious, and Torsten implies that he may need her help in the future., 1h33
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about education,
Films based on playsActors Miriam Hopkins,
Merle Oberon,
Joel McCrea,
Bonita Granville,
Catherine Doucet,
Alma KrugerRating73%
Following graduation, college friends Karen Wright and Martha Dobie transform Karen's Massachusetts farm into a boarding school with the assistance of wealthy benefactor Amelia Tilford, who enrolls her malevolent granddaughter Mary. Karen and local doctor Joe Cardin begin to date, unaware Martha is in love with him., 1h41
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Walter Huston,
Ruth Chatterton,
Paul Lukas,
Mary Astor,
David Niven,
Gregory GayeRating76%
Samuel "Sam" Dodsworth (Walter Huston) is the successful, self-made and unsophisticated head of Dodsworth Motor Company, an American automobile parts manufacturing firm, based in the small Midwestern town of Zenith (also the setting for Lewis' Babbitt). His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton), feeling trapped by the boring social life of their small-town existence, convinces her spouse to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. Sam disregards the warning of Tubby Pearson, his banker and friend, that men like them are only happy when they are working., 1h45
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about education,
Films about children,
Films about sexuality,
Films about suicide,
Théâtre,
LGBT-related films,
Films based on plays,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Shirley MacLaine,
Audrey Hepburn,
James Garner,
Miriam Hopkins,
Fay Bainter,
Veronica CartwrightRating77%
Former college classmates Martha Dobie (Shirley MacLaine) and Karen Wright (Audrey Hepburn) open a private school for girls. Martha's Aunt Lily (Miriam Hopkins), an aging actress, lives and teaches elocution at the school. After an engagement of two years to Joe Cardin (James Garner), a reputable obstetrician, Karen finally agrees to set a wedding date. Joe is related to the influential Amelia Tilford (Fay Bainter), whose granddaughter Mary (Karen Balkin) is a student at the school. Mary is a spoiled, conniving child who bullies her classmates, particularly Rosalie Wells (Veronica Cartwright), whom she blackmails when she discovers her in possession of a student's missing bracelet., 1h22
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors John Barrymore,
Bebe Daniels,
Doris Kenyon,
Thelma Todd,
Isabel Jewell,
Melvyn DouglasRating74%
The story focuses on several days in a critical juncture in the life of George Simon, who rose from his humble roots in a poor Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become a shrewd, highly successful attorney. Earlier in his career, he allowed a guilty client to perjure himself on the witness stand because he believed the man could be rehabilitated if freed. Rival lawyer Francis Clark Baird has learned about the incident and is threatening to expose George, which will lead to his disbarment. The possibility of a public scandal horrifies his socialite wife Cora, who plans to flee to Europe with Roy Darwin. Devastated by his wife's infidelity, George is about to leap from the window of his office in the Empire State Building when his secretary Regina, who is in love with him, comes to his rescue.